Crowd vs Walsall under 5,000

[Stinky Kat]

Its just too expensive to regularly watch football nowdays for me.

No pay rise this year, mortgage rises, 2 sets of school uniforms, vets bills, petrol etc, the list is endless. I hate missing the Albion, I miss my mates and the awaydays but until I can get more pay or there is an economic upturn for average earners its 3-4 games a year for me. Up to 2 seasons ago i only missed about 10 games a season for years. Guess thats life

 

[Storer68]

Eh?! If people bothered to turn up, they'd find that the football is in fact SCINTILLATING at the moment!

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wasn't last night

 

[Brovion]

Ok, we're all agreed - ticket prices must come down. Either reduce all tickets to about £10 (with the travel voucher an optional extra) or do specific promotions with tickets for certain LEAGUE games (forget the JPT) at £5

No STHs will object. After all they always bang on about how they pay upfront for the good of the club, so I'm sure they'll put the interests of the club first and not worry about the value of their own little investment being eroded.

 

[BUTTERBALL]

The crowd last night was a disgrace. I was sat right in the middle, so it was hard to guage. The family stand had probably only 25% of the people in it that you would get on a Saturday, but being a school night, that is obvious.

Walsall only brought about 70 fans, so that kept numbers low.

Even so, it was a perfect evening for watching football. I left work early so that I could go and I found it much more enjoyable than sitting in watching Champions League on telly.

I am really disappointed with the apathy that seems to exist at the moment.

 

[British Bulldog]

The crowd last night was a disgrace.

Well lets hope it acts as the kick in the bollox the board need, They've over estimated the loyalty and generosity of the fans and now they've lost them.

 

[S'hampton Seagull]

Ok, we're all agreed - ticket prices must come down. Either reduce all tickets to about £10 (with the travel voucher an optional extra) or do specific promotions with tickets for certain LEAGUE games (forget the JPT) at £5

No STHs will object. After all they always bang on about how they pay upfront for the good of the club, so I'm sure they'll put the interests of the club first and not worry about the value of their own little investment being eroded.

I would agree with but ad one caveat. If ticket prices are to be cut for the remainder of the season, those STH's (inc me) should have this reflected IF they renew next season.

 

[unnameable]

Martin Perry will get the message eventually, though it might be years before he does. How long did it take him to implement the members' scheme to give season-ticket holders priority for over-subscribed games?

 

[Caveman]

Yep, time to do something drastic. That's 400 lower than our worst EVER crowd at Withdean. I don't care how low the prices have to go, just get 7,000 people in there each week to create a bit of atmosphere. The SILENCE tonight was embarrassing. Surely even selling the FOUR THOUSAND empty seats for a pound would be better than this?

I think the arguement would then be, nobody would pay the normal price for a ticket and then all future ticket sales would then have to be £1 and we would be running at a loss.....much bigger loss.

 

[Caveman]

Well lets hope it acts as the kick in the bollox the board need, They've over estimated the loyalty and generosity of the fans and now they've lost them.

Didn't against Leeds though did they? We need a promotion badly this year.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

wasn't last night

I beg to differ. I thought we were excellent last night.

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[eastlondonseagull]

Even so, it was a perfect evening for watching football. I left work early so that I could go and I found it much more enjoyable than sitting in watching Champions League on telly.

I am really disappointed with the apathy that seems to exist at the moment.

Absolutely

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[pasty]

I beg to differ. I thought we were excellent last night.

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Pretty passing football in the first 2 thirds of the pitch is all very well, but we did nothing in the final third. Was very disappointed last night.

 

[eastlondonseagull]

Pretty passing football in the first 2 thirds of the pitch is all very well, but we did nothing in the final third. Was very disappointed last night.

Think my pain threshold must be better, then

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[Kinky Gerbil]

Lets face Brighton are clearly the 20006/07 Arsenal of League 1

 

[The Wookiee]

However, I do think the club seriously needs to look at pricing and consider introducing a category system. Last night's game would come in the lowest category, with tickets at, say, £18 to £20, with Leeds or Forest as Category A games at £25. Surely that would be a good idea.

I agree !!

 

[British Bulldog]

in summary, If I could have turned up on the gate, paid up to, say, £20, I would probably have gone.

Thats all fans want is to turn up, buy a ticket at a reasonable price and watch a football match. It would'nt be so bad if the club could get permission to park a ticket van at Preston Park so you could purchase your ticket before walking up to the ground.

 

[Spiros]

I would agree with but ad one caveat. If ticket prices are to be cut for the remainder of the season, those STH's (inc me) should have this reflected IF they renew next season.

But if the ticket prices are only cut for a specific part of the ground - ie the East Stand - then why should STH's (including me as well) have a problem with it? At the moment we are playing attractive (if not always effective) football. Just think how low last night's crowd would have been if we'd lost against Luton? Also - would we have got a slightly higher crowd if the game had been scheduled tonight (vs Sky only football) rather than Tuesday (vs terrestial TV football)?

Because we used to played at a proper ground and get proper crowds we think there is a divine right to expect everyone to keep coming now that we are at a 'stadium' of less than non-league quality. We don't. The club have put a lot of effort into making Withdean a place to watch football but their hands are tied as they don't own the ground.

 

[Clive Walker's slaphead]

Football is just to expensive nowadays and the type of person who goes has changed as well. I think the club have lost supporters for a variety of reasons and those have been well documented. However as much as I love watching the Albion it just isn't the same as it used to be back in the Goldstone days and I think a lot of people have lost that feeling they had for the club. I'll admit that at times it doesn't seem as if I'm following the same club. The damage that Archer/Bellotti did still lives on - they well and truly ripped the heart out of the Albion

 

[Perry Milkins]

League match scheduling

Why can the Football League not schedule a whole programme of league matches in a week when there is no European football?

Whilst I could not given a monkeys decaying molar about Fat Frank, Young Yossi, Fragrant Francesco or Playne Wayne Rooney. It would appear that some fans prefer to watch such games than support the lifeblood of the local footballing communty.

Are there so few weeks when there is no Sky coverage of top class football (you know the stuff we see when England play)?

 

[hans kraay fan club]

See the 'JPT match next week' thread, for a BRILLIANT idea, that will attract new fans from all over Sussex, GUARANTEED.